Movies like The Mad Room

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The Mad Room (1969)
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The Mad Room (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This compelling remake of the classic 'Ladies In Retirement (1941)' stars Stella Stevens as Ellen, a woman living as a companion to her future mother-in-law, wealthy and very irascible widow Mrs. Armstrong (Shelley Winters). Soon after, Ellen's younger brother and sister, one of whom murdered their parents (they can't remember which one of them did it), are released from an asylum and come to live with them. And thus begins a chilling mystery loaded with twists and thrills, as director Bernard Girard (Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round) keeps tightening the screws brilliantly.
Style: psychotronic, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, female protagonist, widow, guilt, female psychopath, interracial, mental institution, psychopath, obsession, gory, family relations, mental illness, small town, siblings relations, family in danger, woman in danger, small town life, eccentric family, family gatherings, dog, children, house, parents, brother sister relationship, brother ...
Time: year 1969, 60s

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Most similar movies to The Mad Room

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and realistic films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, gory, psychopath, serial killer and obsession mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Mad Room: Pretty Dead (2013), Dark Places (2005), Boogeyman (2012), Last Girl Standing (2015), House of the Damned (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pretty Dead (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: After killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial, Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers that she wasn't mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real life zombie.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, mental illness, parasite, custody, doctors and patients, zombie, body horror, mental institution, suicide attempt, danger, supernatural power, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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95%
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Dark Places (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: prostitute, murder, life is a bitch, danger, addiction, drug abuse, couples, gory, sexual relations, gay, freak, death ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 3.7
 574
Boogeyman (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of young boys inadvertently free the creature from captivity. Going on a rampage, the Boogeyman, whose origin dates back to the time of Genesis, targets an innocent child – whose father is the town Sheriff (McClintock).
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, scary ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, violence spree, siblings relations, religions or cults, rivalry, single parent, boogeyman, deadly
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Last Girl Standing (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, troubled past, girl, brutality, woman in danger, violence, psychopath, danger, murder, revenge, maniac, disguise ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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House of the Damned (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
Style: scary, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: insanity, mental institution, mute, estate, disability, psychopath, confined, misfit, mentally unstable, mute or deaf, chases and races, treasure hunt ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place: spain
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66%
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The Cottage (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: tenant, psychopath, family in danger, couples, parents and children, twists and turns, suburbs, cabin in the woods, kidnapping, writers, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
Style: serious, slasher, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, gory, biopic, killer, true crime, ted bundy, villain ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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My Pure Joy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On the outside Adam appears to be a normal teenager, but underneath...his mind has been so rotted by trauma from his past and the gory films he watches, that he has blurred the lines between reality and pretend! This prompts Adam to start killing ...
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: obsession, serial killer, murder, youth, mentally unstable, gory, terrorism, teenage life, female nudity, teenage murderer, psycho, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Soft for Digging (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A man wanders into the woods in search of his cat and witnesses a murder
Style: scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, afterlife, danger, isolation, witness, ghost, haunted by the past, old man, elderly man, excavation, very little dialogue, forest ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
American Nightmare (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot: murder, halloween, serial killer, psychopath, halloween party, danger, destiny, chaos and mayhem, sister sister relationship, female psychopath, radio, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.4
 1K
Mimesis (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
Style: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: murder, zombie, danger, psychopath, gory, confined, isolation, living dead, undead, violent content, profanity, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 3.6
 2K
Insane (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, looking for somewhere to sleep. She's come to the wrong place. A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, Jenny is looking for her. She's come to the right place. The Bridgeburn Hotel
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, gory, confined, danger, woman in danger, isolation, hotel, violent content, psycho killer, serial murder ...
Time: 21st century
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56%
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 3K
Repentance (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller ...
Plot: psychopath, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, maniac, murder, terror, villain, black, psychology, mental illness, mental health ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Ring of Terror (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.
Style: medical horror, independent film, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot: fraternity, cemetery, living dead, doctors and patients, survival, contests and competitions, terrorism, ghost, prank, danger, youth, college life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Nobody Loves Alice (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with...
Style: slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rivalry, vengeance, couples, infidelity, gory, obsession, loneliness, female psychopath, murder, violence, dismemberment, female killer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Vampire Clan (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy ...
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, investigation, uncover truth, gory, suburbs, vampire, goth, true crime, supernatural being ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 2000s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
We Are What We Are (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, underground horror ...
Plot: cannibalism, murder, family problems, danger, family in crisis, curses spells and rituals, family relations, death of father, serial killer, violence, survival, ghost ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 568
Nails (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A professional hit man retires to his colorless apartment but soon starts to suffer from horrible headaches and hears voices. In order to cure himself, he hammers a nail into his skull.
Style: disturbing, surreal, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: hitman, masochist, psychopath, addiction, life is a bitch, danger, gory, self mutilation, violence, murder, body horror, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Under the Bed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, creature, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, dark past, nightmare, recurring nightmare, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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48%
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Evil Eyes (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about starts to actually happen.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: serial killer, screenwriter, premonition, psychopath, gory, profanity, supernatural being, pregnancy, violent content, forces of nature, sexual content, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Joshua (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, parents and children, homecoming, gory, youth, serial killer, social relations, small town life, babies and infants, small town, past, town ...
Time: 21st century
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45%
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Face (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, murder, psychopath, supernatural, police investigation, danger, transplant, race against time, prostitute, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Maniacts (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two serial killers meet and fall in love in an asylum for the criminally insane. Upon escaping their corrupt captors, they flee to the country to try and lead a happy, normal life. Unfortunately, "normal" turns out to be a state of ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, rough, slasher, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, lovers on the run, mental institution, romancing a criminal, criminal heroes, fall in love, gory, psychopath, starting over, love and romance, mind game, chases and races ...
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44%
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China White Serpentine (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and ...
Style: suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot: femme fatale, dangerous attraction, investigation, mind game, obsession, haunted by the past, couples, danger, supernatural, life is a bitch, survival, drug abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 3.8
 394
Night Shadow (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: werewolf, small town, murder, monster, supernatural, hitchhiker, journalist, gory, small town life, dangerous animal, journalism, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
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43%
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Axed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, rivalry, confined, isolation, parents and children, countryside, profanity, murder, crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
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42%
Hoboken Hollow (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, gory, haunted by the past, danger, farm, redneck, murder, bondage, torture, nightmare, wrestling, backwoods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 1.5
 1K
The Tomb (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style: lovecraft, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, rivalry, supernatural, confined, escapades, survival, ancient mystery, woman in danger, gory, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.4
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Craig (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, danger, mental illness, gory, split personality, obsession, rivalry, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.7
 3K
The Fan (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, murder, stalking, obsessed fan, actress, stalker, woman in danger, price of fame, maniac, psychopath, actor's life, secretary ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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